Edgar Renteria Named World Series MVP

Is there a more unlikely World Series MVP than Edgar Renteria?  Renteria along with Aaron Rowand and Barry Zito was the posterchild of the bad contracts that were forked over to veterans.  The very sight of Edgar Renteria frustrated most fans. 

Now, he is a hero in San Francisco and will be in our hearts forever.  He has done for San Francisco what he did for the Florida Marlins thirteen years ago as a second-year player.  He has brought home a World Series title.

Edgar Renteria was signed to a two-year, $18.5 million dollar deal in 2008.  A deal that was laughed at by front office management all across baseball.  It was a huge overpayment for an aging 31-year old shortstop.  In his first year in San Francisco he played in 124 games while hitting .250 with five homeruns.  Then this year, a year where he was supposedly healthy and would go back to the old Edgar, he played in 72 games and hit .276.  He was so bad that it wasn't even sure he would make the postseason roster.

That same Edgar Renteria is a World Series MVP for the second time in his career.  Renteria batted .412 with 2 clutch homeruns and 6 RBIs in the World Series.  A pretty amazing accomplishment considering he only one hit in four games in the NLCS.

Now Renteria can go out the same way he came in--a World Series Champion and MVP.

Cody Ross' Impresses the Front Office

It's always the unlikeliest of players who become postseason stars.  This time it is outfielder Cody Ross of the San Francisco Giants who has not only put his name on lists with the likes of Will Clark but now has opened some eyes in the front office.

In an interview with the media Brian Sabean suggested that Cody Ross will not just be around this year.  Ross who made $4 million this year with the Florida Marlins is in his final year of arbitration and if we read between the lines will be tendered a contract by the San Francisco Giants.

Cody Ross said he would loves playing in San Francisco and would love to finish his career in San Francisco.

“When I got an idea of how this team is and is going to be, and playing in front of that crowd every day, I can’t see a place I’d rather be.  This has been an amazing experience for me. I’d love to play here longer than these few months or even another year. I’d like to finish my career here.”

In 6 games this postseason, Cody Ross is batting .350 and has hit four homeruns all of which have broken up a no-hitter.

Note: According to 22gigantes.com, Ross is trying to talk Florida Marlins second baseman Dan Uggla into not signing an extension with the Marlins and come play for the Giants in 2012.